"roll 4d6 - L" is no longer showing results from dice.pm

[sdball]

Aww, one of my favorite goodies I worked on back in the day is no longer handling one of its special cases. The code for -L and -H is still in dice.pm but it must no longer be matching its execution pattern correctly.

The deal is to have the dice goodie respond to standard dice notation:

roll 4d6 - L # roll 4 six-sided die and subtract the lowest value
roll 3d12 - H # roll 3 twelve-sided die and subtract the highest value

[majuscule]

Hi @sdball!

Thanks for noting this issue. I've been taking a look at the the code, and I realized that the goodie has been case sensitive. The queries roll 4d6 - l and roll 3d12 - h do work. I've updated the goodie to trigger regardless of case - but it still doesn't seem to be doing quite what I expect. Since I am assuming it was working previously, and because I am unfamiliar with dice notation, I would appreciate you taking a second look checking the results.

Here's an example of what it's doing right now:

  You entered: roll 4d6 - L

DDG::ZeroClickInfo  {
    Parents       WWW::DuckDuckGo::ZeroClickInfo
    public methods (1) : new
    private methods (0)
    internals: {
        answer        "1 + 4 + 4 - 1 = 8 (random)",
        answer_type   "dice_roll",
        is_cached     0,
        is_unsafe     0
    }
}

That looks to me like 3 rolls, with the lowest subtracted, but I from what you've said, I would expect something like this (four rolls, minus the lowest):

  You entered: roll 4d6 - L

DDG::ZeroClickInfo  {
    Parents       WWW::DuckDuckGo::ZeroClickInfo
    public methods (1) : new
    private methods (0)
    internals: {
        answer        "1 + 4 + 4 + 3 - 1 = 11 (random)",
        answer_type   "dice_roll",
        is_cached     0,
        is_unsafe     0
    }
}

Can you confirm that in these cases we should be showing one more dice roll than we are? When you get back to me here, I'll make the fix, re-release and deploy.

Thanks!

[sdball]

Sorry! I forgot that github doesn't email notifications anymore.

Yes, 4d6 - L says: roll 4 six-sided dice and subtract the lowest. That's definitely a bug. Instead of simply subtracting the lowest it should still be adding it and then subtracting it or just not even counting it.

roll 4d6 - l
5 + 5 + 6 - 3 = 13 (random) # should be 16
5 + 6 + 6 - 5 = 12 (random) # should be 17

[majuscule]

Hi again @sdball!

No problem :-) Although just to note - github does email me notifications. Perhaps it's a setting that's gotten disabled on your account?

Anyway, I see what you mean, and I've made the change in 21f4cbb. Additionally, I noticed that the way it was being done before was sorting the rolls before display. That didn't seem right to me, so I fixed that too. I also added a test case that should ensure that this error never comes up again.

Would you take a look and tell me what you think? If everything is right, I'll release the Goodies package and this will be deployed in a day or so.

Thanks again!

[majuscule]

Hi again,

It's been a while and this is now deployed. I'm closing the issue, but please feel free to reopen if you spot any other problems.

Thanks again!